The Twenty-Fifth Trial [Mirror] - Winners and Endgame

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Heroes
When:Day 52, night
Where: near the Train

The rain falls harder, and the snake sneers at you as you exit the temples... Lightning strikes and the snake laughs like thunder... But that's all, the mocking laughter rings in your ears as the scenery shifts back to the normal Train area. Those who revive will do so near the Train as the winners and survivors reappear.

Ginger and Licorice double win for both surviving and targeting a Priest! For these teams they get 800 points.

Jasmine wins for surviving! They get 500 points.

Everyone on a winning team is revived and fully healed.

Everyone else... Is revived. And healed. However in whatever death wounds they received they have, instead of scars, white scales for their skin.

Smaller wounds will regenerate in a one to two days and will leave scales instead of scars unless healed otherwise.

All Kami remain hungry and able to shift to their monster form for the next day or so. Only meat will relieve this hunger.

Any Kami that were mad at the end of the game will retain a bit of mental instability for a day, in whatever form you prefer.

Priests, if they normally have powers, will find themselves somewhat weaker for a day.

It is not ICly known that these effects will wear off.

Comments

[awakenerd]

If you want to take that long.

[He'll give Crow some space to work himself out, but he's not going to let Crow run or hide forever, obviously. Not going to let Crow deal with all of it alone.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow is pretty sure he deserves to deal with it alone? Like Rean, he killed you, it would be perfectly reasonable? But he also knows that's not the kind of person Rean is. ]

Yeah, it wouldn't hurt. I won't leave you waiting longer than that.

[ You can at least still count on him for that much.

He's planning on killing monsters until he's too exhausted to move, taking a nap on the beach, and then he'll hit up Ginger. ]

[awakenerd]

All right. If you get in trouble, call for me.

[He means it! He knows there's a lot Crow needs to think about but, that is that and this is this. If Crow needs help he'll always come.]

[Bond]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow reaches over to pat Rean's head once, briefly. ]

...You really are too kind for your own good, you know that?

[ He's not sure it's a compliment, but there's an exasperated fondness to it. ]

Re: [Bond]

[awakenerd]

And you're a bit of a disaster. I like you anyway.

[bad_crowmance]

[ He can't even really argue with that. ]

Well, at least you've got great taste in disasters.

[awakenerd]

That's what I like to think.

[bad_crowmance]

You know... I thought you'd be at least a little mad, though. Or even just annoyed.

[awakenerd]

Were you hoping I'd be?

[bad_crowmance]

....It's not like I want you mad at me. But you'd have every right to be, and I knew that going into it.

[awakenerd]

...I'm not happy about it or anything, but you told me your reasons. In your own way you were being kind.

[bad_crowmance]

Rean...

[ Crow definitely doesn't deserve Rean and he damned well knows it.

But he's not giving him up for anything. ]

[awakenerd]

[He'll just pat Crow's head again.]

I'll be in Ginger when you're ready.

1/2

[bad_crowmance]

[ For a long moment, Crow looks at Crow and considers telling him how he really feels about him. Actually laying it out, admitting what Rean may even already know but using the words to say it, to let it take form and make it real. It's three little words. Three little words with a world of meaning to them, with a weight purely their own. Three little words that hold more power in them than any Divine Knight or Awakener could ever dream of.

...

Then again, it would be every much as unfair to Rean to put that at his feet now as it is to unload his guilt on him, wouldn't it? Either one is putting a lot on Rean for his own selfish reasons. If he ever tells Rean... if he ever tells Rean. It should be for the right reasons. Even if he's not sure what those might be.

So he says nothing. ]

[bad_crowmance]

[ He smiles at Rean, then reaches to give take his hand again and give it a brief squeeze. ]

I'll see you then.

[awakenerd]

[He squeezes Crow's hand and lets him go.]

See you then.

[If he has any suspicions about Crow's thoughts, he doesn't let on. Getting up to check on everyone else.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ He doesn't think Rean would say anything even if he did. Crow pulls his double saber out and heads towards the jungle. ]